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STEPHEN A. DUIWIAN, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN IRL- BACHER AND JACOB DAVIS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FAUCETs.

Speciiicatonforming part of Letters Patent No`163,367, dated May 18, 1875; application filed June 2D, 1874.

v To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN A. DUMAN, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a Faucet 5 and I do hereby deciare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, having referenceto the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation; Fig. 2, a like section with the plug removed; Fig. 3, a transverse'section through line 1 2, and Fig. 4 a like section through line 3 4 of Fig. l.

I ike letters of reference indicate like parts in the various figures wherever they appear.

This invention relates to that class of faucets for drawing fermented liquors that are forcibly inserted into the cask containing the liquor; and it consists in the details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

It has heretofore been the custom to construct faucets with a cylindrical chamber, having a conical scat and a squirting-cylinder located centrally within the lower part of the said chamber, or by arranging nicely turned and finished annular grooves around a tapering plug, to constitute a squirting-cylinder. In the rst-mentioned kind the squirting-cylinders are made in a separate piece and soldered or otherwise attached to the dischargenozzle of a faucet, or the lower part of the chamber is used as a squirting-cylinder. The

u faucets so constructed are subject to many objections. of which the following are the prin-` cipal ones: First, the leakage resulting from the compression of the faucet-seat; and, second, their liability to general derangeinent, caused by the repeated severe blows the faucet receives when inserted into or withdrawn from the cask.

In order to overcome these objections and drawbacks, which is the object of my present invention, I construct the chamber with an annular recess larger in diameter than the said chamber, and place a seat, consisting of a section of a cone only, around the main passage and within the said recess, thesaid seat surrounding the main passage to such an extent only as to insure the proper closing of the said main passage. By thus situating a seat in the chamber farthest from the source of the compression it cannotbe affected by the said compression, and the faucet can,there fore, not leak when the metal of the body is deformed from the causes'aforementioned. I furthermore forni the squirting-cylinder in one piece with the said faucet-body by making the lower part of the chamber of a solid piece, and removing therefrom, by drilling or otherwise, so much of the metal` as to form the squirting'- cylinder, so that the faucet-body, chamberseat, and squirting-cylinder are all formed in Y one piece of metal,which is far more substantial than those in which the squirting-cylinder is inserted into the discharge-nozzle, or where the lower part of the chamber constitutes the said squirting-cylinder.

A in the drawing is the body of a faucet for drawing fermented liquor. It consists of the tapering shank A1, provided with. the main passage A2, the barrel B, and the head G. The barrel B contains a cylindrical chamber provided on its lower end with a squirtingcylinder,D, located centrally therein., and surrounded with a number of holes, B1. This squirting-cylinder is formed in one piece with the barrel B and shank A1 by casting the lower part of the barrel solid, and removing therefrom, by drilling or otherwise,l so much of the metal as to produce the said squirtingcylinder. The holes B1 are also drilled through the solid part of the barrel, and terminate in an annular recess, B2, surrounding the chamber B3. Within this recess, and around the main passage A2, I provide a seat, consisting of a section of a cone, of such an extent only as to insure the proper closing of the said main passage by means of a tapering plug, C, having a plunger, C2, formed thereon, and being operated by the upper stem G3 and a handle, O4. The conical plug is provided with a passage, E, to connect the main passage A2 with the annular recess B2. The chamber is closed on its upper end with a screw-cap, F, through which the stem O3 passes.

The operation of my faucet is similar to that of others, only that the liquor passes from the main passage A2 through the key C, and, collectin g in the recess B2, is discharged through 4 minute opening in the bottom of the said cylinder.

VIt will be observed that, by constructing'the faucet-body, barrel, and squirting-cylinder of one piece of metal, and surrounding the said.

cylinder With a number of holes, my faucet is more durable than those in which the squirting-cylinder is inserted into the dischargenozzle, or Where the lower part of the chamber forms the squirting-cyliinler, for the reason that the blows the faucet receives when inserted into or Withdrawn from the cask have no effect upon the said squirting-cylinder, either to deform it,or to loosen it from its connection with the discharge-nozzle, and that the arrangement of the sectional conical seat Within the chamber andaround the main passage is such that the compression of the chamber cannot impair the seat, and thus cause the faucet to leak, which will soon take place in all faucets having a full conical seat, or Where the squirting-cylinder is formed around the conical plug.

Having thus fully described my invention, A

Yarranged substantially'as described, and for the use and purpose set forth.

2. The combination, With the chamber B3, of the annular space B2, provided with a part of a conical seat,A3, around the main passage A2, and the series of holes B1, all When arranged substantially as and for the use and purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the annular space or'recess, B2, serving to protect the seat of the faucet against the effects of compression of the chamber B3, of a section of a conical seat surrounding the main passage Az only, substantially as described, and for the use and purpose set forth.

STEPHEN A. DUMAN.

Witnesses: Y

MICHAEL J. STARK, Ferns FRIDERICK. 

